Changes Delay Defense Plans
Washington report on coast defenses shows modifications and additions to the Army modernization plan, delaying completion. Cost rises from 43.5 million planned to about 32.3 million more, with insular and continental timelines extended. Training, joint Army Navy exercises, and anti aircraft artillery development noted.
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Washington
Army
John W. Gulich
Coast Artillery
Continental
United States
Insular
Panama
Gulick
Philippines
Hawaian Islands
Panama Canal Zone
Dowling Family Society Campaign To Present Joretta
Ayrela Dowling, daughter of a leading merchant, is prepared for society by a assertive mother. Norman Williams, son of a shipbuilder, visits a party to view the yacht Allan Dowling has just bought. The evening features Joretta, Uncle Charley, and friends Sally Ruth and Helen as plans unfold. Norman mentions an engineer named Jim Norton from their plant.
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Ayrela Dowling
Wear
Norman Williams
Allan Dowling
Joretta
Charley
Allan
Norman
Sally
Ruth
Helen
Jim Norton
San Pedro
Jetty
Jack
Sam
Annual Book Week Observed In Children's Room At Library
The 12th annual Book Week will be observed this week in the Children's room at the library. Graded lists will be distributed in the schools and many new children’s books will be on display through Saturday. The list highlights biographies of figures like Helen Keller and Gandhi, adventures of young explorers, and stories from famous authors suitable for young readers, with selections across travel poetry and fiction.
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Marion F. Lansing
Helen Keller
Socrates
Robert Bruce
John Bunyan
Garibaldi
Hermann Hagedorn
St. Francis of Assisi
Savona- Tola
Robert E. Lee
Edith Cavel
Gandhi
Sweetser Kate Dickenson
White House
Charles J. Finger
Daviingston
Tisense
Africa
Hazelton Wade
Thomas Jefferson
Education Desire in Japan Spurs English Study
The thirst for education in Japan drives learning English speech and writing as a popular pastime among Japanese people during scarce leisure hours.
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Japan
Washington Family Keeps Golf Honors At Home
Edward Ey non, secretary of the Washington baseball club, advocates keeping golf championships in the family and winning by coming from behind. Everett Byron, who inherits his father’s skill, captured the Columbia Country Club championship, while Mrs. Everett Eynon won the Columbia Women’s championship after overcoming a two up deficit. The Eynons now hold both major titles at Columbia for this year. The American Association for Old Age Security has a membership of 2,000.
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Louisa M. Alcott
Lulu’s
Marjorie Hill Allee
Judith Lankester
Virginia
Indiana
Judith
Ralph Henry Barbour
Rod Craig
Alice Turner Curtis
Massachusetts
Gail Clarke
Plymouth
Mass
New England
Esther Birdsall Darling
Navarre
France
Blue Devils
Charles Dickens
Oliver Tvvist
Laurie York Erskine
Fife
Wild Bill
Gus Kearney
Ralph Hubbard
Washington Irving
Bold Dragon
Washington
Stephan W. Meader
Red Horse Hall
New Hampshire
Bud Martin
Tug
Boryston
Cedar
Bud
Red Horse Hill
New
Edward Eynon
Washington Baseball Club
Eynon
Ed” Eynon
Everett Byron
Columbia Country Club
Columbia
Everett Eynon
Eynons
Shaw Still Watches Women's Clothing
George Bernard Shaw at 74 defends interest in women's dress amid a court incident where a wife accused her husband of ignorance about clothes. The playwright notes a 50 year marriage may not reveal such details and argues a man who ignores his wife's attire irritates her, while professing no clear class affiliation.
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Allan Dowling
Dowling
Los Angeles
Dowlings
Anne Dowling
Allan
Rmnost
West
London
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
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Ena Robb Webster
Central Pris Asociation
Mumsy
Anne
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Archer Wallace
John Wanamaker
Thomas Lipton
Henry Ford
James Hill
Merriam Sherwood
the ‘Cid
Valencia
Elizabeth Pongracz Jacobi
Hungary
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Margaret Allison Johansen
Ood-le-uk
Alaska
Siberia
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Greenland
Kah-da
Anne Merriman Peck
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Italy
England
Darrus Butterworth
Martin Awisha
Kairowan
Dorothy Verrill
Victor W. Page
Henley
William A. Simmonds
Fred L. Black
Pat Callahan
Augustus Post
Skycraft
James Whitcomb Riley
Eugene Field
Howard Pease
Betty
Jon
Robin Hood
Richard Coeur de Lion
Ton
Rothmund
Heidi
James Willard Schultz
Rockies
Earl Reel Silvers
Avalon
Oats
O’dair
Elsie Singmaster
Lila Tryon
Thames Williamson
Davey Jones
Ted Farnum
Caribbean Sea
Raoul Whitfield
Wings of Gold
Larry King
Silver Cross
Texas
Immed
Larry
Eva Gordon
Arthur Gates
Eulalie Grover
Mother Goose Land
Inez Hogan
Katherine Kuebler
Hansel the Gander
Ruby Minor
Sunnyside Farm
Anne Parrish
Floating Island
Amy Palm
Wanda
Greta
Broby Farm
Marie Ahnighite Peary
Lucy Fitch Perkins
Mary Phipps
Patsy
Rhes Wells
Beppo the
Donkey
Ella Beskow
Pelle
Elsa Eisgruber
Berta
Elmer Hader
Elephants Too. “Eo Morrow——The Painted Sibyle V
Maud and
Miska Petersham
Father
Noah
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Live and Let Live
Shoe Man
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